Label for floor coverings



Oct. 25, 1932. -E. "PETERSEN ,0

LABEL FOR FLOOR covERIfies Originai. Filed March 28, 1932 4 Fig.1

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11 12 I t a y 7"- f" ATTORNEY @atented @ctn 25, 1932 teasers series ELLEO'ET I. PETERSEN, F ENFIELD, CONNECEECUEK AESIQNOR E0 BIGELOW-SANFQBD @ABPET 60., THC OF THOMPSONVILLE, QUBENFJQETEQUT, A CQBPORA'EKON GE MAS$A= LABEL FGB EMQR Original application filed Harch 2e, lfisa'serial 65b1,,5d8, 3'

and this application filed June a 193%. aerial. iiio. 6316,6352.

This invention relates to a combined floor covering, such for instance as carpets and rugs, and an identifying marker or label and is a division of application Ser. No. 601,548, filed March 28, 1932.

it hasbeen the usual practice heretofore to display upon carpets and rugs which are ofiered for sale suiiicient information to identify the kind of fabric, its maker and possibly other information, and the practice has Jeen to mark or display this information upon the back of the carpet or rug.

Ihis practice is open to the objection that it requires that the floor covering be turned or folded back todisplay the marking upon its lower face, and when a number of floor coverings are arranged in a stack or pile the marking upon the back of one cannot be examineduntil the superposed rugs or carpets are themselves shifted. 7

Where the carpet or rug is provided with a pile surface formed of projecting yarns secured to the backing fabric, it is desirable that the label shall be so applied to the carpet or rug as that it will not cause any appreciable depression of the pile forming area, and in accordance with the present invention the label has end portions which are secured to the floor covering in such manner that the data bearing portion of the label shall extend over and above a part of the pile area without depressing it.

In accordance with the present invention the ends of the label are secured to the floor covering at separated points, one of which ma be the end portion of the carpet or rug an the other a side portion thereof, so that the portion of the label extending between the ends shall be extended above and overlie a part of the pile surface.

The invention and novel features thereof will be made clear fr om the following description and accompanying drawing of one good embodiment of the invention.

In the drawing 2- Fig. 1 is a perspective view showing a por- H rtiqn of a pile carpet or rug having the label of the present invention applied thereto;

Fig. 2 is a section onthe line 2-2 of Fig. 1. The floor covering is composed of a woven backing fabric 1 pile forming yarns :2 which project upwardly from the Woven backing fabric to form a pile surface area which may be either plain or figured,

In the present instance of the invention the end portion of the floor covering is provided witha fringe be secured to the floor covering by suitable means such as the stitches 5. The side edge of the floor covering may ,have the usual selvage which is shown in the present instance as overstitched as at 6, although it will be understood that the over-stitching may not be necssary and that the selvage edge of the door covering may terminate adjacent the edge of the pile forming surface.

It has been found in practice that an idene tifying label may be conveniently connected to the floor covering so that the data bearing to which are connected the 3, the heading 4 of which may portion may extend over or above the pile In the present instance of the invention the I data bearing portion of the label extends diagonally across and above the pile-surface at the corner of the carpet or rug, as indicated in Fig. 1, and one end portion of the label is shown as secured to the floor covering at 7, while the'opposite end of the label is turned about the side edge of the carpet or rug and secured to the under surface thereof by stitching, as at 8 and 9, so that the data bearing portion 10 of the label extends between the end portions of the label above and over a portion of the pile area without injury thereto.

The end portion 7 of the labed may be turned under as at 11 and secured to an end portion of the floor covering or the woven acking fabric by a series of fasteninlgslQ which may be of any usual character and as shown are constituted as stitching. Where the end 7 is secured to thefloor covering, as indicated, the bend of the label at the end 7 will be turned upwardly to present the data tile material and-the data, such for instance 'as best quality, as indicated at 13, may

be displayed u on the data bearing portion of the label eit er by printing, stamping, or by weaving the data information into the material of the label.

The end of the label opposite the end 7 is turned about the side edge of the floor covering, as indicated at 14, to carry the terminal end portion of the label beneath the woven backing fabric where it maybe secured as hereinbefore sta'ted by suitable stitching or other fastenings. I

It may sometimes be desirable to have a permanent portion of the .label secured to the backin' fabric, in which case the portion 7 15 of the la 1 may be secured permanently to secure the backing and a line of cleavage 16 be provided so that upon removal of the label when the carpet or rug has been sold by cutting or parting the same on the line 16, the portion 15 of the label will remain as a permanent mark on the back of the carpet or ru From the construction described it willbe apparent that the applicant has provided a' marker or label for floor coverin s shownas comprising a woven backing fabric having thereto the upstanding pile forming yarns and that thedata bearing portion of adjacent a side edge the label extends diagonally across the corner of the carpet or rug where it is readily displayed whether the carpets or rugs be exhibi'te singly or in stacks. As a result of this construction the pile surface of the floor coveringis-not in any way injured by the label or its attaching means, and the portion of the label that extends across the pile surface is not attached to the pile.

' What is claimed is 1. The combination of a floor covering comrising a woven backin fabric having pile orming yarns secured t ereto to form a ile surface area, and-a label formed of flexible material having one end secured to the floor covering at the end of the floor covering and the other end secured to the floor covering thereof, so that the part of the label between the secured ends thereof shall extendabove and overlie a portion of the pile surface area. .2. The combination of a floor covering formed ofa woven backing fabric having pile forming yarns connected therewith to form a p le surface area, and a label formed-of flexible textile material having and ortions one of which is secured to the woven ackingt fabric in contacting relation with a side edge of the floor covering and the other of which is secured to the end of the floor coverin with the part of the label between the secured end portions extending in a diagonal direction over and above a portion of the pile surface area.

3. The combination of a :floor covering formed of woven textile material, a label formed of a strip of flexible textile material and means for connecting one end portion of the label to the end of the floor covering and the other end portion of the label to the floor covering adjacent a side edge thereof that the portion of the label between the end portions shall extend diagonally over the upper surface of the floor covering.

4. The combination of a floor covering having a pile surface, a flexible corner label for the floor coverin formed of a strip of ribbonlike textilematerialextendingdiagonally over the pile forming area at the corner of the floor covering, and means for securing one end of the corner label to the end of the floor covering and the other end to the floor covering in contacting relation with a side edge thereof.

5. The combination of a floor covering havmg a pile surface, a corner label for the floor coverin formed of flexible textile material extendlng dia onally over the pile area and formin a dataiearing portion at a cornet of the cor covering and having a part folded around a side edge of the floor covering and secured to the back thereof to rovide a permanent data bearing portion, an means for securing the other end of the corner label to the floor covering.

6. The combination of a floor covering, a

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